On UNIX/Linux: myData <- scan(pipe("tr '\\t' '\\n' < myfile"), skip = 3)
You might have to adjust this depending on your shell. On Windows there is a tr in Duncan Murdoch's Rtools. On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Balzer Susanne <susanne.bal...@imr.no> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am trying to read in big amounts of data with scan. It's only one variable, > numeric values, separated by tabs,.. and it's many of them. So I was thinking > that I could use the skip option and read in 100000 values at a time - but > skip doesn't work, probably because I don't have line breaks in the txt file. > So any value specified for skip makes the scan function jump to the end of > the file. > > Does anyone have a good idea? I would be extremely grateful. > > Kind regards, > > Susanne Balzer > > > > **************************** > Susanne Balzer > PhD Student > Institute of Marine Research > N-5073 Bergen, Norway > Phone: +47 55 23 69 45 > susanne.bal...@imr.no > www.imr.no ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.